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Very true, for example the Goldstone pumping station (is it still open to the public. None of this "Health Safety" "nonsense" but one wonders how many poor souls were killed/maimed in constructing these masterpieces? (Edit) sadly not see http://www.britishengineerium.org/. Might start doing...

Great man, as was his dad Marc Brunel. Great British engineers both of them. However, Brunel Snr. was French by birth and could perhaps be viewed as an asylum seeker (option at the time may have been guillotine), son was half French. Legacies that live on are the SS Great Britain, the Great...